Al Jarnow Movies

Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

A mind-twisting time-lapse beginning on a hill just outside town, doing for the concept of time what Charles and Ray Eames's 1968 film The Powers of...

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?

Beginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia and boiled...

Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

Experimental computer imagery

A filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

A companion piece to Cosmic Letter, also produced for 3-2-1 Contact. Jarnow begins at his address in Brooklyn and zooms outward to the farthest...